Build or buy? An age-old decision that gets made dozens of times a year. It’s quite possibly one of the most important decisions you make as an company. It impacts roadmaps, productivity, team structure, and customer satisfaction (you know, just a few little things). There are a lot of factors to consider, one of the most prominent being cost. So, what exactly are the costs you need to consider when building your own incident management solution?

Infrastructure as Code, or IaC, is the practice of automatically provisioning and configuring infrastructure using code and scripts. IaC allows developers to automate the creation of environments to generate infrastructure components rather than setting up the necessary systems and devices manually.

Ever wondered how software development teams can efficiently tackle the complexities of modern development challenges? The answer lies in the Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), a powerhouse of tools and capabilities for development and deployment. These platforms provide a comprehensive ecosystem for development and deployment, integrating key functionalities such as version control, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and automated testing.

There are three main infrastructure types to consider when hosting and deploying applications: Bare Metal, Virtual Machines (VMs), and Containers, each with its own advantages and disadvantages depending on your use case. The three technologies are not mutually exclusive however, as both VMs and containers run on top of bare metal servers, while containers can also be deployed inside VMs.

It is now the de facto standard for companies to operate across numerous regions and cloud-accounts. The reasons for this vary, and depending on where you sit in the organization, these reasons may be more or less apparent to you.

Nagios is an open-source monitoring system that has become indispensable for system administrators and DevOps teams across the world. However, like any other software, you’re bound to come across errors with Nagios. In this article, we’re going to take a look at some common errors and how to solve them, along with the pros and cons of Nagios, and why MetricFire is the perfect alternative for monitoring.

There are several high-performing database services available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). When you need to handle caching, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), real-time data, session stores, or personalization, you can choose one of these options. Examples of these high-performance database services include Amazon RDS, Aurora, MemoryDB, DynamoDB, Neptune, and ElastiCache. We often get questions about which AWS database service is best between RDS and Aurora.

At CloudZero, we’re in the business of driving positive business change. Whenever we work with a client, our goal is to share insights rooted in our FinOps perspective and platform expertise that helps customers save on cloud costs and build strategies for engineering-led optimizations. Each experience is curated for the clients FinOps maturity stage and unique business goals; that’s what personalized service is all about.